RIM Names Kristian Tear COO, Frank Boulben CMO — Research In Motion this morning announced two addition to its management team. — The company named Kristian Tear as chief operating officer. Tear has been with Sony Mobile Communications, where he served as executive VP.

Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing — Are you annoyed by all those automatic Facebook news apps? Apparently you're not alone. They're falling off a cliff right now. — The Washington Post was the first publication to experiment with a “frictionless” social reader app, which launched last year.

T-Mobile: iPhone network compatibility coming this year — T-Mobile's network will be compatible with the iPhone later this year — even if it isn't selling it, the company said today. The wireless carrier added that it had tapped Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens for its $4 billion 4G LTE deployment.

Skype killing Windows Phone: Nokia responds — Summary: Nokia responds to a recent article about Nokia's partnership with Microsoft and how it is hurting Lumia sales. The transcript and video of CEO Elop's comments are included here. — Nokia has responded to a recent ZDNet Mobile News article …

On Thneeds and the “Death of Display” — It's all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. No one pays attention to banner ads, the reasoning goes, and the model never really worked in the first place (except for direct response).

Wireless charging to get a boost from Samsung, Qualcomm — At CTIA in New Orleans, Samsung and Qualcomm debut an industry group formed to create and promote a new wireless charging standard. — Follow @KentGerman — Wireless charging isn't new, but the technology soon will get a new push …

Viddy hits 26M users, consistently registering over 500K a day — On April 16th, I wrote an article about how popular video sharing app Viddy had hit 6.5M users. Less than a month later, the company tells me that it's starting to consistently sign up over 500K new users a day, and currently boasts a userbase of 26M.

Amazon Leaps Into High End of the Fashion Pool — SEATTLE — Amazon is so serious about its next big thing that it hired three women to do nothing but try on size 8 shoes for its Web reviews. Full time. — The online retailer is shooting 3,000 fashion images a day in a photo studio using patent-pending technology.

HTC Evo V 4G for Virgin Mobile coming May 31st for $299.99 — Virgin Mobile has just announced it will launch its first “4G” phone, the HTC Evo V 4G for $299.99 on May 31st. The Evo V 4G will run on Sprint's WiMax network, and Virgin Mobile will offer a $35 plan with unlimited data and messaging plus 300 minutes of talk time.

Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA — The hip-hop music site the authorities shuttered for more than a year without explanation lashed out Monday at the recording industry and the federal government, likening the taking of the site to a “digital Guantanamo.”